On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 11:23:00AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 09:52:51AM -0700, googly.negotiator...@aceecat.org > wrote: [Some text about the Re: prefix in email Subject headers] > Mutt has some builtin support for handling / cleaning that up IIRC, via > the $reply_regexp setting. If you communicate with a lot of people who > use non-standard ones like Aw, IMO, it's better to adjust this setting > than to just kill it all with fire.
Interestingly enough the 'Aw' prefix is even hardcoded in mutt code. Looks like Germans had a lasting impact on the world here. I would still be interested to know why this was added to mutt.